Presenter: Nasir Ilahi, LLM, LP The term "fantasy" is foundational to psychoanalysis, yet its clinical application varies dramatically across the Atlantic. While all schools share a common Freudian root, the […]
Using vivid clinical material, broad theoretical references, and decades of experience as an analyst, Dr. Sugarman will explore the total situation in child analysis — and why it tends to […]
Presented by Tiffany Hale, LMFT & Jamie Steele, LMFT Bring your cases that are outside of normative bounds. We will draw in our well-worn and well-loved analytic concepts to explore […]
Presented by: Lauren Levine, PhD Discussion by: Janine de Peyer, LCSW Please join us whether or not you have read the book. Some people want to read and discuss the […]
A CE-eligible Conference on Grief and Loss will be taught by national experts Dr. Robert A. Neimeyer and Carolyn Ng as well as Chicagoans José A. Hernández Zeind, MS, LCPC, […]
Inaugural Talk with Dr. Carolyn Laubender: We are excited to open this new series with an evening conversation with Carolyn Laubender on her book The Political Clinic – winner of […]
Presented by Salman Akhtar, MD This presentation will address the painful malady of self-loathing. Four types of self-loathing will be described: (i) primal, (ii) shame based, (iii) guilt based, and […]
Speakers: Todd Essig, Phd and Oscar Hills, MD. Generative AI, especially chatbots, presents psychoanalysis with tremendous promise and significant peril. While some benefit tremendously from their AI relationships, others sink […]
Disability remains among the least theorized subjects in psychoanalysis. This is notable but not surprising: the relational anxiety that disability provokes in the non-disabled is pervasive, and psychoanalysts are not […]
2026 Grand Rounds Series Speaker: Hannah Zeavin, PhD From the mid-1940s until the 1960s and beyond, class, race, and maternal function were linked in metaphors of temperature in pediatric psychological […]
Presented by: Dr. Kathleen Fitzgerald, PsyD, MFT, Training and Supervising Analyst. This consultation group invites therapists into an ongoing exploration of dreams as living expressions of the unconscious. Drawing from […]
This consultation group presented by Kathleen Fitzgerald, invites therapists into an ongoing exploration of dreams as living expressions of the unconscious. Drawing from the full arc of psychoanalytic thought, participants […]
Presented by Dr. Holly Han, Psy.D., LMFT & Ivy Zequeira, LMFT. This 6-week course explores psychoanalysis as a living, political, and decolonial practice through Daniel José Gaztambide’s A People’s History […]
Keynote of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Rapaport-Klein Study Group hosted by the Erikson Institute for Education, Research, and Advocacy of the Austen Riggs Center Speaker: George Makari, MD […]
Presented by: Dr. Kathleen Fitzgerald, PsyD, MFT, Training and Supervising Analyst. In this Saturday Salon, Dr. Kathleen Fitzgerald invites participants into an intimate exploration of a 10-year analytic relationship reframed […]
Drawing from the works of Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Reich and Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Jon Dimond, PhD will use Phantom Thread as an illustration of the confounding phenomenology of The Strongman. Participants […]
The ethical codes for mental health professionals are guided by internationally recognized standards centered around core principles: respect for others, competence, integrity, and responsibility to society. Central to these standards […]
Discussants: Virginia Ungar, Marcelo Haber, Horacio Legras, and Belen de Martino Moderator: Margarita Cereijido, PhD Friday, July 10, 2026 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm ET Via Zoom NOTE: a link […]
Mikita Brottman, PhD, will present on her paper, “Nomen Est Omen: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Names.” She will discuss how personal names and naming are shaped by unconscious dynamics, implicit […]
Clinical supervision provides the foundation for ensuring patient care and professional development. This series of 4 classes introduces an approach to supervision that emphasizes developing supervisory alliance, parallel process, working […]
2026 Grand Rounds Series Speaker: Michael D. Garrett, MD Research in the last four decades has shown a strong correlation between childhood adversity (e.g., sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional neglect) […]
Speaker: Dan Shaw - Beginning in 1996 with the essay “Traumatic Abuse in Cults: A Psychoanalytic Perspective,” up to the release in 2026 of his latest book, Traumatic Narcissism Theory: […]
2026 Grand Rounds Series Speaker: Robert J. Gregory, MD Engaging suicidal clients in treatment and recovery is intense and challenging. Clients may state: “I just want to die”, “Nothing is […]
Through the lenses of psychoanalysis, memory, and cultural reinvention, Laura McMaster, LMFT, will explore Joan Crawford, the contested narratives surrounding her life, and the film’s unexpected second life in drag […]
Speaker: Deborah Farnsworth: An intensive reading group on Fred Busch’s book, Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind. Busch, an influential ego psychologist, writes complex psychoanalytic ideas in an unusually clear, usable way. […]
2026 Grand Rounds Series Speaker: Rhoda Olkin, PhD Clients come to therapy with entrenched ideas about illness, health, and disability. How they conceptualize disability impacts all aspects of therapy, including […]
The Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center and the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine are collaborating on a morning seminar focused on Hamlet and its enduring themes of grief, conscience, […]
Speaker: Phoebe Cirio, MSW, LCSW The NASW Code of Ethics is based on a set of core values: service, social justice, dignity and worth of the person, importance of human […]
Through an exploration of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter, Liora Diamond, M.S., LPC, applies a psychodynamic lens to examine the delicate tension between social oppression, personal autonomy, and the complexities […]
Psychoanalytic Institute Training Program Prepare to practice as an Adult Psychoanalyst. Child and Adolescent training is also offered. Who Should Apply: Applicants to both Adult and the Child and Adolescent […]
Psychoanalytic Studies Program (PSP) A two-year program for licensed clinicians and advanced scholars interested in psychoanalytic approaches to enrich their clinical and academic work. Who Should Apply: The Psychoanalytic Studies […]
2026 Grand Rounds Series Speaker: Mareike Ernst, PhD This presentation introduces the concept of intersession processes—patients’ thoughts, feelings, fantasies, and internalized experiences of therapy and therapist between sessions—and examines their […]
Shoshana Shapiro Adler, PhD and Anita Schmukler, DO are offering a consultation group for psychotherapists and psychoanalysts who wish to engage in sustained, thoughtful dialogue about clinical work within a […]
In this presentation, Andrew I. Smolar, MD will review the psychoanalytic literature on stepfamily formation, will give clinical examples of step-transferential effects on therapeutic process, and will provide technical suggestions […]
Part II is designed to complement the gap between the previous talk’s Narcissistic-Self paradigm emphasis on theory with an emphasis on clinical practice. The DSM-5 offers a constricted, pathology-based view […]
Clinical supervision provides the foundation for ensuring patient care and professional development. This series of 4 classes introduces an approach to supervision that emphasizes developing supervisory alliance, parallel process, working […]
The field of psychoanalysis is replete with theories about infancy and child development, and within psychoanalysis there is a longstanding tradition of linking child development to the organization of intrapsychic […]
This course defines postpartum depression (PPD) and explores it through the lens of psychoanalytic framework. The course will examine the role of ego regression in PPD, as well as specific […]
Scientific Meeting This presentation will be held virtually via Zoom. Register at the host website. Presentation Summary: As AI systems take up residence in the consulting room, classroom, bedroom, nursery, […]
Artificial Intelligence and Implications for Psychoanalysis by Amy Levy, Psy.D.
A presentation of an analyst's illness and how he understood and addressed it when it occurred over 30 years ago; and how he has reconsidered it in face of greater […]
Drawing on more than twenty years of clinical work with patients suffering from obesity, bulimia and anorexia, this presentation explores the necessity of a shift away from models centered on […]
Following the suicide of the celebrated photographer Francesca Woodman at the age of twenty-two, the creative work of her artist parents, Betty and George Woodman, was profoundly transformed. Following Abraham […]
A Two-Year In-Person Training Based on the Esther Bick Infant Observation Model. Who Should Apply: The Observational Studies In-Person Program is open to mental health professionals, trainees, educators, researchers, and […]
In-person attendance: $250; limited to 50 people at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, MA Virtual/remote attendance: Free CE/CME available: 6 hours (pending approval) Hope in Hard Times: Building Community […]
Presenter, Derek Hook will highlight multiple facets of the drive - amongst which is, of course, a type of relationality arguably inherent in the concept - and do so accessibly, […]
Derek Hook will utilize Freud's 'Three Essays on Sexuality' as a means of tracking various drive phenomena as of crucial importance in the symptoms, identifications, modes of jouissance, relations, transference […]
Despite emerging frequently in the psychoanalytic process, there is a sparseness of literature on erotic transferences and countertransferences. There is also a tendency to desexualize the psychoanalytic process due to […]
Dr. Shirke conceptualizes racism and prejudice as the consequence of intergenerational transference of experiences and attitudes about the identities of self and of others. Two analytic theories of mind can […]
Spectacularization (Debord 1967), enshittification (Doctorow 2025), and depressive hedonia (Fisher 2008; Gilroy-Ware 2017) are discussed as emerging defenses against envy. Fascism, nostalgia, and homogenization are linked by the psychodynamics of […]